DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA - Alexis DeTocqueville - The full text plus an attempt by the University of Virginia to reconstruct the America that Tocqueville encountered in 1831, so that we can understand his work in context.

Stop Polluters From Putting Their Money Where Your Mouth Is

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Indeed. For a discussion on why we need this, and how much the wage inequality issue damages the very principles of democracy, please also view, for instance, Wealth Inequality in America: Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM www.pinterest.com/pin/533958099546351520/

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both of these. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.